The 1996 campaign for president war never close. President Clinton's projected electoral votes never fell below the 271 he needed for re-election and Senator Dole peaked in March at 69 projected electoral votes. This essay uses two underutilized subnational data sets-the Hotline's ''Electoral ...
The United States presidential election of 1992 was an election held on November 3, 1992, in which Democrat Bill Clinton defeated incumbent Republican Pres. George H.W. Bush.
1996 Presidential Election In 1996 Clinton handily defeated Republican challenger Bob Dole to secure a second term in office. Affair With Monica Lewinsky Clinton's second term in the White House was dominated by the Lewinsky scandal. The president at first denied, and then later admitted, that he...
Clinton, who accepted the 1996 presidential nomination in Chicago, contrasted the two throughout his remarks, saying Harris has "the vision, the experience, the temperament, the will — and yes — the sheer joy to get something done." Trump, Clinton said, "mostly talks about himself." "The...
Clinton has spoken at every Democratic nominating convention since 1976, when Jimmy Carter was the party’s nominee. Never one for brevity, he holds perhaps the dubious record of having delivered the longest Democratic acceptance speech in the modern era. His address in 1996 clocked in at n...
following presidential election in November 1996, Clinton was able to clearly assert himself in office against Bob Dole. The summit meeting between Boris Yeltsin and Clinton in Helsinki ended in March 1997 without an agreement on the dispute over NATO's eastern expansion. In May 1997, Clinton tra...
Yes, by the time DOMA landed on his desk in September 1996, Clinton had recovered his standing and was coasting to victory over Bob Dole. More than likely, he could have vetoed the bill and still won the election easily. (Any veto, by the way, would almost certainly have been overridden...
The Clintons havelong been friends with McAuliffe, who served as finance chairman of Bill Clinton's 1996 presidential race and chairman of Hillary Clinton's 2008 primary campaign. Cuccinelli's campaign sought to turn Clinton's star power among Democrats into another way to build enthusiasm a...
The 1996 campaign for president war never close. President Clinton's projected electoral votes never fell below the 271 he needed for re-election and Senator Dole peaked in March at 69 projected electoral votes. This essay uses two underutilized subnational data sets-the Hotline's ''Electoral ...
Today we are talking about William Jefferson Clinton – better known as Bill Clinton. Clinton took office in 1993, and was re-elected in 1996. In many ways, historians consider his time in office a success. The economy expanded, and the country was largely at peace. ...